The decision of the International Court of Justice, made public on July 22, that the unilateral declaration of independence by the provisional government of Kosovo "did not violate any applicable rule of international law" was both predictable and shocking.

Predictable, because the ICJ panel considering the case included judges from nine countries that had already recognized the "independent republic of Kosovo." As deliberations began in December 2009, ICJ president Hisashi Owada even blurted out that the decision would be vague — which was interpreted at the time as confirmation that the court was under tremendous political pressure.

Shocking, because the actual decision (PDF) — that the declaration "did not violate general international law, Security Council resolution 1244 (1999) or the Constitutional Framework" — was reached by cheating.

Sophistry and Sleight of Hand

The question before the court, based on the request of the Serbian government to the UN General Assembly in October 2008, was whether the Provisional Institutions of Self-Government (PISG) acted legally when they declared independence in February 2008. The answer was intuitively obvious: the provisional government, set up by UNMIK under the provisions of UN Security Council resolution 1244, had no such power.

In his dissenting opinion (PDF), Judge Mohammed Bennouna of Morocco quotes the statement by Michael Steiner, then viceroy of Kosovo, from November 2002:

"Kosovo is under the authority of UN Security Council Resolution 1244 (1999). Neither Belgrade nor Pristina can prejudge the future status of Kosovo. Its future status is open and will be decided by the UN Security Council. Any unilateral statement in whatever form which is not endorsed by the Security Council has no legal effect on the future status of Kosovo."

There is no ambiguity here. Unless the Security Council endorses the resolution of status, it simply cannot be legal. The Albanian provisional government was established by UNMIK, under the provisions of 1244, and therefore had to abide by those rules and laws. It did not. It clearly overstepped its authority, and its actions could not be legal. So how could the ICJ rule otherwise?

"[The] majority opinion avoids this result by a kind of judicial sleight-of-hand, reaching a hasty conclusion that the "authors" of the unilateral declaration of independence were not acting as the Provisional Institutions of Self-Government of Kosovo but rather as the direct representatives of the Kosovo people and were thus not subject to the Constitutional Framework and UNMIK regulations. That conclusion simply cannot be correct …"

What point is there in law, if one can circumvent it simply by calling oneself differently?

Bennouna calls the majority’s reasoning "at best a sophism" and concludes:

"…it does not matter whether or not the authors of the declaration of independence are considered to be members of the Assembly of Kosovo; under no circumstances were they entitled to adopt a declaration that contravenes the Constitutional Framework and Security Council resolution 1244 by running counter to the legal régime for the administration of Kosovo established by the United Nations."

Upon reading these dissenting opinions, as well as those of vice-president Tomka (PDF) and Judge Skotnikov (PDF), it is hard to conclude that the ICJ reached its decision in good faith.

A Can of Worms

Serbia has already rejected the verdict and reiterated it would "never" recognize the province’s separation. The Albanians in Kosovo are celebrating what they consider a major victory. A day before the ruling, Vice President Biden reiterated the U.S. support for its protégé, and Washington is now calling for more recognitions. However, there are no indications any of the five EU members still refusing to recognize Kosovo as independent are prepared to change their mind. Despite some speculation in the West that Russia might throw the Serbs under a bus in favor of recognitions for South Ossetia and Abkhazia, the official Russian responsewas critical of the ICJ verdict.

Very few people will ever bother to read the hundreds of pages of the majority opinion, separate opinions by several majority judges, or the dissents. The vast majority of the world’s inhabitants will take media reportsthat "Kosovo declaration was ruled legal" at face value.

Over the past two years, the Empire and its followers confidently argued that even if the ICJ ruled against them, the decision would be "advisory and non-binding." Yet now they forget about that detail, and treat it as complete and total vindication of their claims.

Yet for all its verbal acrobatics, the ICJ did not really delve into the issue of whether the Kosovo Albanians’ case for independence had any merit. What it did do, however, is open up a can of worms about secessions worldwide. One senior UN official told Reuters that the ruling "will be read in a lot of capitals on the basis not of the Kosovo case itself but of the general implications for each country."

And not just in places like Slovakia, Spain or Cyprus. Daniel Miller, president of the Texas Nationalist Movement (TNM) cheered the decision today, stating:

"The United States and other European nations have acknowledged the right of unilateral secession of any state, thereby making any violent opposition to a seceding state unsustainable and unjustified."

Shifting Principles

That is most certainly not what the sponsors of the "independent state of Kosovo" in Washington and Brussels had in mind. In fact, they insisted from the very beginning that Kosovo was a sui generis case, a special one-off situation that would not set any precedents, so the rest of the world had no reason to worry. When one tears down the law, however, there truly aren’t any precedents — or rules, for that matter. Everything becomes sui generis, and the governing "principle" is whatever works at the time.

The Balkans lands are the prime example of this Orwellian development. In 1991, the U.S. and European capitals initially supported the integrity of Yugoslavia, only to completely turn around and endorse the secession of Slovenia and Croatia based on the right of self-determination. The secession of Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina — uncontested in principle by Serbia, it needs to be noted — produced a conundrum of their own, some 2 million Serbs who did not wish to separate from Yugoslavia, so they themselves seceded. At this point, however, Americans and Europeans began to insist that the integrity of Croatia and Bosnia trumped the Serbs’ right to self-determination. Yet when it came to Kosovo, the "principle" shifted again, so the rights of Kosovo Albanians trumped the integrity of Serbia!

As Doug Bandow put it, back in 2007, "If there was one consistent theme to the U.S. position, it was that the Serbs should lose."

Attempts to point out the incongruity were brushed aside by Imperial policymakers as a futile search for "perfect reasoning, which does not correspond to reality on the ground." That is, "reality" as willed into existence by the Empire.

Even the ICJ has not been immune to this relativistic logic. Back in 1999, it refused to hear Yugoslavia’s case against NATO, claiming that Belgrade had no standing. But in 2006 it ruled that Serbia had standing to have been sued by Bosnia back in 1993! That case, incidentally, ended with Serbia exonerated of all charges, which may have been the reason why Belgrade placed so much trust in the ICJ when it came to Kosovo.

Hubris and Nemesis

Empire’s crafting of an "independent" state in Kosovo has been an ongoing process since 1998, or maybe even before. Along the way, it has demanded many coercive changes to reality, the most apparent being the 1999 war and occupation of the province. This week’s ICJ decision comes a close second. Truly convinced in their ability to reshape the world by their strength of will, Imperial policymakers have forgotten that ideas — and actions — have consequences. As noted in this column in December 2009, "It is one thing to flout the law with impunity. It is quite another to call such of behavior legal."

Yet that is exactly what the ICJ decision has done for the Empire. What forces may have been unleashed by Thursday’s decision, only time will tell. But the law of unintended consequences and a sense of irony ingrained in human history suggest that the blowback will be nothing short of spectacular.

That kind of "His Master's voice" ruling represents the first step towards "the right to genocide". Such blatant disrespect for international law and for principles of justice will force people and nations to take arms to defend themselves and their rights. The masters then will invoke the "violence" and unleash the dogs of war.

Extermination and slavery – these are the dominant "choices" for the future. Back to barbarity.

The West is doomed. There are higher forces than this machinery of lies, greed and cruelty. Never existed a comparable imperial structure which could manage to distort reality and turn black into white, wrong into right, abject immorality into righteousness on such a scale. The inhumanity of this so-called civilized society reaches the conceptual core of human reasoning itself. The fall of the abomination is going to be of the same magnitude as it's excesses.

I hope you are right.. After more than 20 years of seeing the excesses go unoticed by the large majority in the western societies I have become a very skeptical observer. To some extent they've been getting away with this sort of behaviors in many corners of the globe. Yet they keep on marching on. An evil empire with no precedent and no entity on the planet able to pose a challenge to its undisputed control of the world.
I think we are all doomed.

Isn't it another instance of a short term perspective winning over a longer one? Go back 150 years, and thinking of statesmen were oriented for long times, and enduring peace and stability.

In our times, the statesmen's thinking, especially in democratic societies, are one, most two elections. 4-8 years. One factor is obviously the inherent structure of the short term right to power in a democracy. (W bow to Hoppe and his "Democracy. The Goddess that Failed). Another the modern relatively rapid changes in human conditions from changes in technology and international division of labor. So decisions tend to only favour the short run.

If the judges had rejected the legality – which they in fact almost did! – it might have caused short term problems. And the broader ones, with minorities in Spain or the USA, is of no interest. Not for the "grab-the-goodies-and-run" perspective of modern business, and subsequently all administration as well.

to appear not to be the past,(NAZI/NATO Germany,Pala_istien,ACME America)ruinations adventures divergent now in conflicted schism to be other than their path evaded denied,race based ethnic centric city states and region zone areas ain't much of a declartation except of motions gone from instructed to mimicked & induced,a declaration of what,declaring a declaration or claiming a right,they/them never did get it,from stupidity or of it, a creed of natural law or branch of wretched canibolistic sacrafice,a color blind democracy born before its' tyme, attempted to be sure at least,why,psyhiatric most likely,oo,really tell u.s. more about this ancient conception,free standind INDEPENDANCE,,,now new and improved,not just for individuals anymore,now for mission/s of "real" Country's,imagined,conjured,tempted with fleeting mirages of neglect or rationell of absolution also too,,,mob rules pig pits and rat holes riots and underworlds,i always thought,government of the cracy,maybe,as yet the democratic ground wire force & veto/vote still wags the dog & spins the threads of vodoo childs and dolls of idols,just another fracture for the district of columbia fraud division,anti democratic institutions in particular,etc,etc,,,

The decision is not binding, was on a very narrow legal point and will change nothing, the author assures us. What's he so worked up about then? I'll tell you: the effect of this decision is to undermine Israel's notorious "right to exist", which is based on exactly the same claim of historic right as the Serbian claim to Kosovo. Modern Serbia only came into existence in 1881, having been taken from Turkey by the "Great Powers" following the Russo-Turkish War. Serbia took Kosovo from Turkey in 1913 in the Second Balkan War. Thus, the only way that Serbia can assert any sort of "right" over Kosovo is by using the Zionist "God gave this land to me" argument. If it doesn't work for Serbia, it doesn't work for Israel! Talk about unintended consequences!

*CAUTION* NO ACTUAL FACTS WERE CONSUMED BY THIS BROODING RANT* & now on the Medi(IRANIAN)terrainein stage,Palace/istien of greater eastern eurasia declared trutheness recently (everyones doing "it") aka independence,(the funky beattle mania) also illegally identified as institutions of bueracracy and authoraties of TAXATION, ("free deals for perferred customers") whatever ya do,don't let Kissingers' Germany touch the warm waters of the north eastern (UTC) Anti/artic,and in a related piece of non-sence,just today i myself after voting for myself declared myself a non carnally ruled entity of the independent sindicite and racket incorperated conglomerite dis-enfranchised,under devolpment and as still with out a G.O.D. father,alpha dad,sponsor or bad name of rue or renouwn,but hey thats ok,what difference do facts make,what difference do details make when yer on the tooled out gravy train with a silver spOOn stuck up yer constitution,hell, its not built in a day, for comfort or speed,to last,,,or for lOOks,just revulsion,paving the way for the rotted corruption of the vermin and swine at enlightned operations HQ_EU,so,oo,,,enlighten us,when did the monarchs and aristocrats first commit to articles of script and record the fine arts of constitutional "independence & humanitarian intervention,all i remember is snake pits bent on cosmic energies destruction and six 6 six style fanito/finite disintigration,well that and WW1,WWll,the Punic,the Blubonic,etc,etc,F.E.M.A. & U.S.A.id (papers please) must be right near the layer upon layer the twisted words of speech that arrives at such a place,the method to appese the enemies threats with the lowest most cowardly quarters of the mass sub-consciouss reactionary primitive brain matter in shadow of the image & masquaraid of reasons moods or sane minds disciplines,eat the children,sell the slaves,inform on the neighbors,etc,(thats really some great heritage,no wonder everybody left and the last fascist super evil power is still so UHH,,, "friendly") behold,the milky coming of the day,thair must surely be some ulterior motive that explains even comprehends such ways and means,if any at all , oh yeah the axis of evil and branches wretched in the wicked garden,sinister,diabolic& mentally ill,the chambers and halls of powers that be in the vacum fringe,where decay and corruption are most inspired to lay & rot,at others exspence INSTEAQD OF THE devils',,the miracle of propaganda before the dragon of horrorfied eyes,the serpents witness vanishing below the psycic plain returns to the lair of the deep & outta sight, rated unknown X,nuetron Y,oo,& sometimes(when motives appear from worldly curtains drawn and steller silvery lights,rays & beams of roman jovian or saurin demaGOGS) omega flouride Z,divisions discorded the same right exsclusivle & precious to the particles and remenint body politic conspiring cracy counterfeit, fake, phonee group,creed enterprise of the crimsion peonic soul stripping euro trash horde,caste & a_llotted,partnered and affilleated at the spirits peril and the rights of laws tortured glees'sadistic satisfaction and smug indefferince of works done and daily bread puked and vomited to its rightful resting place,charmed & enchanted i'm sure,curse/s & hexe/s their best designs and original "majik werks,the EU's crown of mis-carriges naught of the UN-federation's original intent/ion/ZZZ,etc,etc,Y=why & X (sometymes) equals black

Modern Serbia gained autonomy in 1815, became a vassal principalty in 1830, and was recognized as fully independent in 1871 (long after the last Ottoman soldier was sent packing). Kosovo was liberated in 1912, in the First Balkan War. And the thought of what this might mean for Israel hasn't crossed my mind, honestly. Talk about ignorance…

If evil can win by destroying everything then you are right, we all are doomed. If it has to be worshipped and especially if criminal efficiency is its main "virtue" we can hope. The irony, imo: evil can't survive without people's hope and, in the long run, it has nothing to offer in that department.

Yeah, but Berlin treaty is just an episode in a centuries long history.

"Modern" for the current attention span means a few weeks, 130 years or 1000 years have no meaning, tradition – what's thar, belief – proof of primitive manifestation in the progressive era, sense of belonging, national identity, cultural heritage – plaques on a wall, relics, museum stuff, nothing to live or die for on your own land.

Spreading "democracy" at the point of the gun far, far away, carving territories the "natives" have "no use for" (or for the natural resources beneath), hi-tech mass killing to "liberate" then "stabilize", media churned fantasy representations that can be summed up in a few cliches, this is the new reality, this is what is worth… uhm, fighting for!?

"As Doug Bandow put it, back in 2007, "If there was one consistent theme to the U.S. position, it was that the Serbs should lose." " Main reason for such a policy is that U.S. policy makers consider Serbs as "little Russians", and, as we all know, Russia is the arch enemy, has many natural resources that we are incing closer to by defeating "little Russians".

If the dismemberment of Yugoslavia accomplished anything good . It will be the rearmement of Russia . Russia could just as well throw Serbia under the bus . The quizling Serbs have been hiding under the bus ever since Milosevic left office . Milosevic was sure right when he said the Serbs were schedualed to be the next Kurds , A people without a country . Kurds can be legally murdered anywhere , kinda like the Jews before 1948 .

Russia has been rearming fast . I dont think NATO wants to tangle with Russia , not even with the United States leading the attack . Russia is wise to NATO's methods and does not plan on tolerating any Bullshit . We might have been able to dismember Russia , if we had selected them instead of Yugoslavia first . I dont know why we would want to attack Russia anyway , but then again I dont know why we wanted to destroy Yugoslavia either . The only thing I can think of its a old nazi dream .

I have long hesitated to post a comment. As a Serb from east of the Drina River, with origins in Kosovo, and as a former correspondent of the Republika Srpska's news agency SRNA in Paris, I simply don't feel like contradicting my brethren from there.

Comment continued… You are wrong Nebojsa. As a libertarian, I cannot consider the declaration by the Albanians of independence from a government they considered oppressed them, and I won't delve into details whether they're right or wrong, I've once survived two busloads of hatred filled Shqiptars, before Milosevic. It is all the Serbian government's fault. I don't know if they are even more incompetent than Milosevic or if they are outright quislings. If they really meant business, they would have sued, make your pick, Peru, Sierra Leone (od that a judge from there voted as he did), Somalia, Afghanistan, Slovenia, Croatia, Nauru… When you fight an enemy that is much stronger than you, you look for the weak points, you look to open breaches. Does David vs. Goliath ring a bell? What did they do instead? Come on, you know better, and I consider this a chance for RS. If we were smart, we could have it all. But as long as semi-literates europhiles rule over us…

Wrong about what, in particular, Mr. Milosavljevic? Back in December I wrote that the whole business was a PR stunt by the Serbian quisling government, intended to create a pretense of fighting for Kosovo while actually abandoning it. How are we in disagreement?

I didn't really delve here into the validity – or lack thereof – of Albanian claims. Neither did the ICJ, for that matter. Whether the Albanians have a claim to the land – and private property – they've seized by force (not very libertarian, that) can and should be discussed, but again, it isn't particularly relevant for the analysis of the verdict. In my opinion, if that claim were valid and appropriate, it would have been made in 1999, not almost a decade later. And it would not need sophistry and sleight of hand to make it seem legal.

Indeed, when I read your reply, we agree on pretty much everything. What I reproach to your article is that the point you just made isn't made with enough force in it. The Serbian government has handed the Empire a victory on a silver platter. The Empire can rely on greedy semi-literates and on gangs of barbarians to enforce its rule. But its rule will never be accepted by literates with a cultural background. In the end, either the civilised win or mankind disappears That has to be repeated to the racist incults that keep commenting your articles. You are shy to say it explicitly enough.

Indeed, some expansion is needed here for surely there is plenty of space for some. Medvedev has been progressively moving more and more to the left of Rachel Maddow these days. In fact, one could just as easily picture him interviewing Rand Paul and grilling him on his views towards civil rights. God knows what this will lead to in the former USSR. Perhaps another revolution. I have my fingers crossed for Mother Russia.

You are obviously too ignorant to realize the irony in your statement and attempting to educate you is a fools errand. You're an insignificant, serb-bashing troll who cannot comprehend factual history or reason. Take your pointless agenda elsewhere.

Well at the end we can say at least one thing for sure – every Balkan nation who had soldiers on Stalingrad an Moscow got a state as a reward.
Unfortunately Serbs picked the wrong side in WWI and WWII.

Who would say 20 – 30 years ago that this world is infested by the Nazism?

Robert Lind is not just an ignorant, Serb-bashing troll, but an OUTRIGHT Nazi scumbag who denies the Holocaust and defends Ustasha and German Nazi crimes against Jews, Serbs and Roma in WW2. Check out the sick garbage he posts over at the Alternative Right.

If this was 1941, he would probably be slaughtering civilians in Jasenovac, and then boast avbout it in some filthy Ustasha rathole

You should have posted your comment as a reply to some Robert Lind. But I don't blame you since he's a troll. I've learnt to read and write as a kid thanks to a concentration camp veteran. She taught me other good manners too. When her death came to my knowledge, I can't explain what I felt. But I thank God she never got to know what happened next.

Exactly. Sometimes I feel that the world owes a huge apology to the good ol' Soviets. At least the most of their talkin' about the fascist danger proved chillingly true. The beast had risen its ugly head again back in the late 1980s, together with its bands of loyal quislings and mass-murdering monsters, from Tudjman's neo-Nazi Croatia to SS-glorifying Baltic statelets

"What forces may have been unleashed by Thursday’s decision, only time will tell. But the law of unintended consequences and a sense of irony ingrained in human history suggest that the blowback will be nothing short of spectacular."

Exactly, we'll wait and see, hoping the ordinary people are not the ones paying the price..

The decision that terrorists have a legal right to steal by the highest court in the world should tell us all something we need to know about . The new world government will have no foundation of law .Justice , or any of the normal princibles civalized society has adopted over the centuries . We are not only sacrificing our standards of reproductve morals , but we are indeed reverting to our animal nature . which make us the least acceptable of all the animals before God .

All Serbian governemts in Kosovo, since the year 1912, were terrorist and denied Kosovo Albanians basic rights. In addition to that, according to the Serbian Nazi ideology of supremacism, Albanians were considered like some kind of sub-humans, a weird kind of bipeds, who are not "like us". Racial supremacism not unlike that of European colonialists in Africa and Asia. The only time when Albanians of Kosovo could breathe (relatively!) freely was 1966-1989. In 1966 Rankovic fell from the grace of Tito's regime. He was a Communist and Serb chauvinist at the same time.

Serb Nazism has a terrible record in the Balkans. Especially disgusting was their way of making war. For example, wars jin Croatia and Bosnia (1991-1995), at least in the beginning, were about massacring civilians with the superior firepower of the Yugoslav Army. Because there was no organized army in Croatia in the beginning, that could oppose the aggression, it was just about killing defencless people and destroying cities. That must be the essence of the famous "Serb heroism" sung in epic songs, I guess. Yet they dare whine like pathetic crybabies about the NATO air campaign in 1999. And whine about the Operation Storm etc.

Robert Lind is a Hitler-loving, Jasenovac-denying Nazi degenerate who OPENLY praises Hitler, German war crimes and Croatian Ustasha over at the Atlernative Right.

He conveniently forgets to mention in the latest insane outburst of his usual Nazi stench, that Albanians also took a wave of "breathing freely" during the WW2 when they quickly formed an SS Division called "Skanderbeg" and engaged into the Nazi quest from the day one.

Also, during the terrible years of "Serbian occupation", Albanian percentage in Kosovo had TRIPLED (while the Serbian "occupiers" themselves had been reduced in less than a century, from a 60% to today's single-digit percentage.

It should be also mentioned that Kosovo Albanians, during the years of Serbian "occupation" were ferociously subjected to such nightmares as a universal health-care, a (Serbia-funded) billion-dollars worth infrastructure, monthly paychecks for child-care, and (gruesomest of all!) – the university-level education IN THEIR OWN LANGUAGE. The very FIRST instance of ANY formal education in Albanian language ANYWHERE.

Everything you wrote here is a straight out lie, sicko. Why don't you go cuddle your nazi memorabilia and fix the frame on the pix of your idols Luburic and Pavelic.

Oh, yeah, don't forget to put on that glove with the knife blade sticking out, then swing the mallet as hard as you can and dig a deep enough pit where you'll be able to throw in some live Christian Orthodox children.

What goes around comes around.
Albanians pulled a fast one on the serbs. Serbs should remember that you have to keep both eyes open. The Serbs are Orthodox christians, not Catholic and most of the reps in the US Congress are Catholic. The Muslims needed a break because the Palestinians were being brutalized. Last of all Russians are Orthodox. Never give up on the heavens.

Please ignore him. He's a troll. It isn't worth wasting energy to repky to him. You engage in a sterile conversation. Deal only with facts. And let the trolls eat their own venom. This comment applies to all who feel ccompelled to answer him..

One more proof that Serbs have much in common with Nazis is their hatred of culture and lust for burining books. We all know which regime it was that revelled in burning books in the 30-ies of 20ieth century. Serbian Nazis destroyed hundreds of thousands of books in Albanian language in Kosova:http://www.mediamonitors.net/qutubuddinaziz1.html

Yeah, right, and an Islamic fundamentalist site is just about as reliable as the rest of your Hitler-loving drivel, you twat. This fellow conveniently skips the fact that most of the "900.000 books in Albanian" were printed and published in Serbia, funded by the SERBIAN educational institutions. Where else could they've been published, in Enver Hohxa's Albania?

:lol:

And during the 1990s, Milosevic openly tolerated the "parallel university system" set up by the terrorists (and the hotbed of their activities prior to the war), in addition to the state-funded one (also in Albanian). University campuses in Pristina and Kosovska Mitrovica were probably the most expensive ones in Serbia and THE FIRST ones in Albanian EVER. No way that the Serbs destroyed Albanian books, I've seen the university library in Mitrovica (Albanian part of the city). The building is virtually untouched and by far the most prominent in that part of Mitrovica, just across the bridge.

As for Sarajevo, your Bosnian Muslim reporters from the former link somehow forgot to mention that the Serbian part of the city was subjected to the Muslim bombing and sniper fire as well, and that more than half of Sarajevo victims were the Serbian civilians murdered in the Muslim part of city, in a few dozen of its horrendous private prisons and concentration camps. Which that ugly Nazi Bono Vox i somehow overlooked during his "humanitarians" show-offs with Alija Izetbegovic, his wartime pal and a Nazi war veteran.

Admit it, Lind, you sure as hell wish you were there, to hear some SS-Gestapo stories about killing Srbs and Jews in WW2 Sarajevo, told by the aging Bosnian Muslim Nazis from Izetbegovic's circle in early 1990s, admired by the man from your wet dreams, Heinrich Himmler

Who do you think profits? The Axis powers (as always). There is a clear tendency to establish international borders along those that existed in 1878 to 1912. This way Serbia will be reduced to about one tenth its size, Muslim dominance will take foothold in Southern Europe, Austro-Hungarian/German dominance of the Danube will be re-established. Simple geography.

Is this Robert Von Lindsturm a well trained agit-prop mole or is this person just naturally dim-witted and stupid – I'll never know. His subversive comments remain arbitrary, without relevance, inflamatory, meaningless and insulting to most. Mediators should develop a special page for dim-witts.

Robert Lind personally took active part in one the worst atrocities during the 1940, he was a Capo at Auswitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Majdanpek and Sobibor. While on July 15 he was responisible for another 40,000 people as per: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20100715/tpl-uk-congo…

Robert Lind personally took active part in one the worst atrocities during the 1940, he was a Capo at Auswitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Majdanpek and Sobibor. While on July 15 he was responisible for another 40,000 people as per:

Please stop Lind. I would not give him a space here. Send him to Croatia
where he belongs with the rest of his kind.
One thing is important: The WWII is not over. The young Nazis are finishing
what their fathers did not. See the pictures of ex-Yugoslavia and who is is punished and who is awarded, etc. Only one country is united (Germany) -
Survived/wittnessed ustashas genocide by sole miracle.

Robert Lind personally took active part in one the worst atrocities during the 1940, he was a Capo at Auswitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Majdanpek and Sobibor. While on July 15 he was responisible for another 40,000 people as per: http://www.auschwitz.dk/auschwitz.htm

A good relief from the lying stupor you are in, would be if you take off that white cap you are wearing, it's squeezing your puny brains too much, and I guarantee your IQ will immediately jump to a high of 83.

Extra, Extra, read all about it. The Risen Nazi Lind replies – so far only one of his comments have been removed by the administrators – I renew my objections to any and all hate-mongering – in this case an open pro-Nazi stand of Holocaust deniers and former Hanjar and/or Skanderbeg SS Waffen members.

I renew my objections to any and all hate-mongering – in this case an open pro-Nazi stand of Holocaust deniers and former Hanjar and/or Skanderbeg SS Waffen members. There is no space for Nazis in this 21st century (except in Albania and Croatia – even the Germans know better. Please sanctions the insulting rants of this Lind disease spreading parasite.

11. On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked; two were used as missiles to
take out the World Trade Centers, and of the remaining two, one crashed into
the US Pentagon and the other was diverted and crashed by the passengers.
Thousands of people were killed by:

14. And now we can add: in 2009, 31 people wounded and 13 American Soldiers
murdered on base at Fort Hood by a Major that was known as…

a: you guessed it – aMuslim male extremist between the age of 17 and 40.

No, I really don't see a pattern here to justify profiling, do you? So, to
ensure we Americans never offend anyone, particularly fanatics intent on
killing us, airport security screeners will no longer be allowed to profile
certain people.

I only submitted facts that are indisputable and in the public domain so that you and your Nazi brethern can wear more towels around your head and seek life elsewhere – not in the civilized world where you contribute nothing but distruction – this way you know that I know, and everybody else equally knows that you know how worthless your cause remains on this planet. If you need any more facts – don't be bashful – just ask. Next topic could easily be Muhammad's pedophilia, or his blood thirsty examples how to divide the world into Dar El Harb and Dar el Islam and eliminate the kefiri.

By the way Islam has never been, nor will it ever be a bona-fide religion it is only a CULT. You are a perfect example of a fanatic cult follower.

The only problem is that Serbian Islamophobic arguments are not accepted by the West, but shoved aside scornfully. Serbies can shout and scream as much as they like that independent Kosova (no typo here) is a victory for Islam, they can invoke their (alleged) merits in the "defence of Christendom", their alleged "suffering" in past wars etc, but nobody takes these arguments seriously, they are dismissed altogether and the world keeps turning. I wonder why is that so.

The failure to convince anyone of real importance and relevance of their arguments makes Serbs a people of eternally frustrated whiners and crybabies.

By the way: my congratulations to Croatia for the 15th anniversary of its brilliant military operation "Storm", by which it restored its territorial integrity and taught Serb savages a lesson. Operation Storm also liberated the Bosniak Muslim enclave in northwestern Bosnia from the pressure of Serb savages who were, both from occupied parts of Croatia and from Serb-held areas of Bosnia, attacking that enclave and mercilessly massacring its civilian population, as well as preventing any supply from entering there, which caused shortages and hunger.

and the Grand finale for Lind: Europe ’s “Decoy Jews”
By Paul Belien
“Decoy Jew” is a new phrase in the Netherlands . Jews are no longer safe in major Dutch cities such as Amsterdam . Since 1999, Jewish organizations in the Netherlands have been complaining that Jews who walk the Dutch streets wearing skullcaps risk verbal and physical attacks by young Muslims. Being insulted, spat at or attacked are some of the risks associated with being recognizable as a Jew in contemporary Western Europe .
Last week, a television broadcast showed how three Jews with skullcaps, two adolescents and an adult, were harassed within thirty minutes of being out in the streets of Amsterdam . Young Muslims spat at them, mocked them, shouted insults and made Nazi salutes. “Dirty Jew, go back to your own country,” a group of Moroccan youths shouted at a young indigenous Dutch Jew. “It is rather ironic,” the young man commented, adding that if one goes out in a burka one encounters less hostility than if one wears a skullcap.
In an effort to arrest the culprits who terrorize Jews, the Amsterdam authorities have ordered police officers to walk the streets disguised as Jews. The Dutch police already disguise officers as “decoy prostitutes, decoy gays and decoy grannies” to deter muggings and attacks on prostitutes, homosexuals and the elderly. Apparently sending out the decoys has helped reduce street crime. The “decoy Jew” has now been added to the police attributes.
The deployment of “decoy Jews”, however, is being criticized by leftist parties such as the Dutch Greens. Evelien van Roemburg, an Amsterdam counselor of the Green Left Party, says that using a decoy by the police amounts to provoking a crime, which is itself a criminal offence under Dutch law.
Unfortunately, the situation in Amsterdam is not unique. Jews in other Dutch cities also regularly complain about harassment. So do Jews in neighboring countries.
On Monday, the Belgian newspaper De Standaard reported that large numbers of Jews are leaving Antwerp for America , Britain or Israel . Antwerp – nicknamed the “ Jerusalem of the North” – is one of the major centers of Jewish culture in the Low Countries . “In London , you are not harassed if you wear a skullcap, but here you are,” a young Antwerp Jew told the paper.
Kleinblatt, a famous Jewish Antwerp bakery, which has been handed down from father to son since 1903, will soon break with that tradition because the baker’s son has emigrated to the U.S. “We no longer feel safe and welcome here,” a young Jew who is leaving for London told De Standaard. “Muslim immigrants blame us for what is happening in Israel .” Another young Jew, who is leaving for New York , says: “ New York is a paradise for Jews. Unlike Belgium , non-Jews in America are pro-Israel.”
Ultra-orthodox Jews remain in Antwerp , but the less orthodox are leaving in droves. Even Jacques Wenger, the director of Shomre Hadas, the Jewish community center in Antwerp , is emigrating to Israel . If the current trend continues, he predicts, in fifty years’ time there will be no Jews left in Antwerp except for the ultra-orthodox.
It is often said that the Jews are the canary in the coalmine. When the Jews feel compelled to leave, the light of freedom is being extinguished. Something is badly wrong when the police need to deploy “decoy Jews.” Once again, the specter of anti-Semitism is haunting Europe . If the Europeans do not stand with the Jews, they deserve no freedom themselves and cities such as Amsterdam and Antwerp will soon be Islamic cities.

I only submitted facts that are indisputable and in the public domain so that you and your Nazi brethern can wear more towels around your head and seek life elsewhere – not in the civilized world where you contribute nothing but distruction – this way you know that I know, and everybody else equally knows that you know how worthless your cause remains on this planet. If you need any more facts – don't be bashful – just ask. Next topic could easily be Muhammad's pedophilia, or his blood thirsty examples how to divide the world into Dar El Harb and Dar el Islam and eliminate the kefiri.

If the moderators will do nothing to eliminate this poisonous parasite anti-Semitic Holocaust denier, I shall make every effort to inform the FBI since overt Holocaust deniers are punishable by Law (in the United States) – therefore the Antiwar.com can be held liable for allowing anti-semitic posts or the IP address of Rober Lind can be found by forensic experts of the FBI. Let's see what it rants when it is sent to Fort Levenworth for the next 40 years, and becomes somebody's wife.

I wonder if "Robert Anti-Semitic Nazi Lind" will show a little more restraint and civility or do we indeed have to resort to the means available to us by Laws of the United States. (From what I understand same laws exist in the U.K., France, Belgium, Germany, Austria and Denmark).

There is no Republic of Kosova on any world map – but they will surely listen to their American paymasters and get you to be a good wife to a large hairy man for the next 40 to 60 years. Don't think you're out of reach if you live in KosovO. Look around yourself all the UNMIK, all the uniforms of international police forces have not been able to bring the peace ever since Kosovo was stolen from Serbia. Ever see any Eulex vehicles? Blue vehicles? White vehicles? Do you think that anybody is going to ask you where you would like to be imprisoned for the next 50 years? You are a temporary American colony – same as it was the case with Iraq (look what happened to Hussein), Cuba (look what happened to Batista), Panama (look what happened to Noriega), Chile (look what happened to Allende). Do you want any more examples or do you think that the forensic service of the FBI can't trace your mud hut in Kosovo? You're sadly mistaken – but I am glad you are beginning to read. Just watch your nasty Nazi rhetoric.

I know you are scared you don't have to deny it and pretend that you're brave and stupid. You are not stupid at all you know full well that overt Antisemitism (like yours) is punishable by law in most countries. I guarantee you that your articles will not be posted or you will be put away. The moderators of ANTIWAR equally have to be observant and careful to avoid any hate speech. In other words your career is finished no matter how you look at it. It's the laws that are tough but you Albanians have been proven to have a maximum IQ of 89, average of 75 and low of 60 – that is not my fault. You are just genetically slow and unable to understand – that's why God invented jails and laws.

Nebojsa Malic left his home in Bosnia after the Dayton Accords and currently resides in the United States. During the Bosnian War he had exposure to diplomatic and media affairs in Sarajevo. As a historian who specializes in international relations and the Balkans, Malic has written numerous essays on the Kosovo War, Bosnia, and Serbian politics. His exclusive column for Antiwar.com debuted in November 2000.